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Making American Taste
Linda S. Ferber
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Description for Making American Taste
Hardcover. A completely new illustrated volume presenting 55 paintings from 38 artists representing the New York Historical Society's superb collection of narrative art Editor(s): Gallati, Barbara Dayer. Num Pages: 324 pages, 81 b&w, 91 colour. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 299 x 261 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2132.
Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy is a landmark publication focusing on American narrative art from 1825 to 1870. A significant contribution to our understanding of taste and collecting during this period, it reasseses themes including the rural and the domestic, as well as a broad range of historical, literary and religious subject matter. American art at this time was dominated by powerful arguments about what constituted true art: should it be for the many, or the educated few, and should specifically American art forms and styles be favoured over more traditional, academic, European traditions. Making American ... Read more
Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy is a landmark publication focusing on American narrative art from 1825 to 1870. A significant contribution to our understanding of taste and collecting during this period, it reasseses themes including the rural and the domestic, as well as a broad range of historical, literary and religious subject matter. American art at this time was dominated by powerful arguments about what constituted true art: should it be for the many, or the educated few, and should specifically American art forms and styles be favoured over more traditional, academic, European traditions. Making American ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
D Giles Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904832768
SKU
V9781904832768
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About Linda S. Ferber
Barbara Dayer Gallati is curator emerita of American Art, Brooklyn Museum. She is the author of Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children (2004). Linda S. Ferber is vice president and senior art historian at the New-York Historical Society. She is the author of Pastoral Interlude: William T. Richards in Chester County. Ella M. Foshay is an independent art historian, ... Read more
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